[Samba] share access issue smbd/service.c:988

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

OK, my samba server was working fine i have 2TB RAID1 drive as a
storage and had 300gb sata drive for boot the Debian OS 6.0.4.
unfortunately my sata boot drive faild and i had to reinstall the OS
in new drive. now when i plug the old Raid drives the data was still
there. but permissions were a bit messed, it was showing numbers like
100015 or 100016 instead of owning user name or groups.
so i did  "chown root:root * -R" i thought that i will reassign the FS
rights to every individual folder again. so i did. but now the shares
in smb.conf that were working previously now they are throwing error
in log files and the same share was working perfectly before.


here is the error

smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
  canonicalize_connect_path failed for service Filesharing, path
/nas/backup/Filesharing

now i created a new folder on new driver which is the new OS drive. i
created a "test" folder at root
my users and i can access either we can create folders and delete

here is the folder at "/test" (we can access it with full rights)
drwxrwxrwx   4 admin admin-grp  4096 May 23 19:30 test

this folder is on "/nas/backup/Filesharing" (this is the problem part
and many other share like this are not working)
drwxrwxrwx  3 admin admin-grp  4096 May 23 19:34 Filesharing



[test]
        comment = test for All
        path = /test
        read only = No
        create mask = 0770
        directory mask = 0770

[Filesharing]

        comment = Filesharing for All
        path = /nas/backup/Filesharing
        read only = No
        create mask = 0770
        directory mask = 0770

you can see both shares have same FS rights and same share rights but
my users can access /test but not /nas/backup/filesharing
and generating this error.

smbd/service.c:988(make_connection_snum)
  canonicalize_connect_path failed for service Filesharing, path
/nas/backup/Filesharing

however i as admin user can access things in "filesharing" so i
thought that admin is the owner of this folder so i change the
ownership of Filesharing folder to a another user and i tested it with
that user but still no luck. even thought it doesnt make any sense as
777 is already given to the folder.

now i am handicap and nowhere to go. i look for the said error on
google on so many places. which shows that it is a File system rights
related issue. and according to my knowledge there is nothing to do
with FS  rights it is some thing different as 777 is already given to
both of the folders.

Thanks,
MYK